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Preparations underway for the Gulfport City-Wide Juneteenth Celebration- WXXV News 25

June 15, 2021 With Juneteenth just a few days away, the Gulfport City-Wide Juneteenth Celebration Committee is making their final preparations for the weekend-long community event. Starting Friday there will be events throughout Gulfport celebrating the day in history which signifies the end of slavery, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Saturday morning, the entire community is welcome to attend the Freedom Parade along MLK Boulevard followed by a Freedom Festival at the Amos Croutch Senior Ball Fields which will feature local foods, craft vendors, live musical performances, and dancers. The three-day celebration will also be a tool to educate the entire community about the meaning of Juneteenth. Gulfport City-Wide Juneteenth Celebration Committee VP Terri Tyler said, “We want the community to come together. We’re doing this so all– not just North Gulfport– all communities in the Gulfport area come together. We’re also going to talk about Junetee

Police investigating Monday morning shooting on Dedeaux Road in Gulfport

Mississippi rejects appeal to halt military storage project

Mississippi rejects appeal to halt military storage project April 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) Mississippi s environmental quality department has rejected an appeal to halt a military storage development project despite fears it could cause chemical contamination in a predominantly Black community. The department s permit board on Friday rejected the appeal from residents, a neighborhood church and a nonprofit organization near the North Gulfport project site following testimony from the community stakeholders, as well as the Mississippi State Port Authority, which is overseeing the project, The Sun Herald reported. The decision allows the port authority to move forward with storage on 16 acres (6 hectares) at the site of a former fertilizer plant that operated in the early 1900s. Soil containing dangerous levels of arsenic and lead there was buried beneath a clay cap in 2009, the newspaper said.

Mississippi rejects appeal to halt military storage project

Mississippi rejects appeal to halt military storage project